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E-0081829event Phambili Ka Ntloko, prominent member of AZAPO and elected national organiser of the movement in 1985, is born in Cape Town.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081820event David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and missionary who died of malaria on 1.5.1873 on the shore of Lake Bangweulu, is buried i13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081812event The ANC holds a special one-day summit with its alliance partners COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) and the S13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081809event Bessie Amelia Head, SA novelist, short story writer and social historian dies in Serowe, Botswana. She had gone to Botswana in13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081743event The National Party of Dr D.F. Malan wins 94 of the 156 seats and the opposition 62 in the general election.13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081734event Jozua Francois (Tom) Naudé, first president of the senate of the Republic of South Africa in 1961 and acting state presi13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081713event The appeal by the Anglican Dean, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, against his conviction and sentence under the Te13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081703event S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), is born in Hebron, Pretoria. The13 Apr 2012✓
E-0081644event Anglo-Boer War 2: In answer to a question by St John Brodrick, Lord Kitchener admits providing firearms to 10 053 Africans and5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081642event Sir Robert Nelson Kotzé, mining engineer who did much to promote safety in mines and who became vice-chancellor of the U5 Apr 2012✓
E-0081604event Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people5 Apr 2012–
E-0081558event Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed. Spanning the gorge of the Zambezi River, the brid5 Apr 2012–
E-0081552event August Friedrich Beutler, official of the Dutch East Indies Company and scout of the interior of SA, is born in Dinkelsbühl, G5 Apr 2012–
E-0083682event The UN ban on Rhodesian import and export, introduced on 16 December 1966, is expanded to include all trade with Rhodesia.18 May 2012✓
E-0083663event Ethiopia and Eritrea amass thousands of troops along their border, ready to fight over a 640-square km triangle of disputed lan18 May 2012✓
E-0083646event A thirty-day cease-fire is declared as talks between Algerian Moslem leaders and the French government begin at Evian-les-Bains18 May 2012✓
E-0083509event A bomb blast damages Melrose House in Pretoria, where the peace treaty between the two Boer Republics and Britain was signed in18 May 2012✓
E-0083484event Capt. Smith attacks Andries Pretorius at Congella in Natal.  Smith is defeated, seventeen men are killed and thirty-one are wo18 May 2012✓
E-0083461event The new campus of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) is opened by the SA state president and chancellor of the university18 May 2012✓
E-0083398event Dr Carel de Wet, grandson of Gen. C.R. de Wet, former minister of health and diplomat, is born in Memel, OFS.18 May 2012✓
E-0083392event In an attempt to unite the two Boer republics, the commandoes of the Free State and Transvaal (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) con18 May 2012✓
E-0083286event WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack14 May 2012✓
E-0083271event Anglo-Boer War 2:  After 216 days Boer forces abandon the siege of Mafeking and Colonel Mahon’s relief column enters the town.14 May 2012✓
E-0083258event ’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 near Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt).14 May 2012✓
E-0083256event Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa.14 May 2012✓
E-0083195event For a large tract of British Somaliland (Western Hawd) and a right for duty free imports through the port of Zeila, Emperor Men11 May 2012✓
E-0083164event Following the proclamation of Abd al-Aziz as Sultan of Morocco, French and British citizens have been attacked by rebel tribesm11 May 2012✓
E-0083115event Mazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist is born in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal. His first poems were published in news11 May 2012✓
E-0083112event Forces of South Africa’s General Louis Botha occupy Windhoek, capital of German Southwest Africa. The dates 11 May and 13 May a11 May 2012✓
E-0082887event In preparation for the next general election, two anti-Malan parties are formed: the Federal Union Party and the Liberals (led7 May 2012✓

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